Sentences with phrase «second parliamentary seat»

British voters have just handed a second parliamentary seat to the UK Independence Party, which pledges to crack down on immigration.

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As a reminder of Unite's importance though; Unite are still the biggest funder of the party (in the first week of the election campaign they gave # 2.4 m of the total # 2.7 m received by Labour), they have upwards of one million members they can encourage to register as supporters in a leadership election (and indeed activate in Parliamentary candidate selections), Unite has three seats on the NEC and of course Len's chief of staff, Andrew Murray, was seconded to Jeremy's team for the general election campaign.

The party also wrestled close to 50 parliamentary seats to gain the most comfortable parliamentary majority since the second parliament of the Fourth Republic.

[9] New expenses rules published by the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority coming into force after the 2010 General Election allow employment of one relative but replace funding for a second home with a London Allowance of # 3,760 for MPs with seats within 20 miles of Westminster.

In the parliamentary elections called for 25 May and 1 June, the National Front plans to stand 566 candidates for the 577 assembly seats and hopes to poll the 12.5 per cent necessary to proceed through to the second round.

In an unprecedented fashion, a sitting president was not merely denied a straight second term but was defeated by a margin of nearly 10 percentage points which translates into over one million votes in real terms and his party lost almost fifty parliamentary seats to concede their legislative advantage to the incoming president's party.

Ukip came second in 118 of the 650 parliamentary seats.

The Party for Freedom won nine seats in the Dutch House of Representatives in the 2006 general election, came second in the 2009 European parliamentary elections and increased its seat tally in the 2010 general election to 24 — just under one in six.

«Darling may be about to set second supertax trap for Tories Main More than a quarter of the original A-List are no longer seeking a parliamentary seat»

The turnout of 18.16 % in the safe Labour seat was reportedly the lowest in a parliamentary by - election since the Second World War.